Another interesting little snippet from the far north-east section of the Nottingham Suburbs called Gedling Village.

This is to do with Gedling House (see the bottom of Gedling Treasures for Grade II listed information). This posting is to make note of the Walled Garden that the house had, but I’ll first make some brief notes on the origin of the house itself:–

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Charles Gerring in 1908 wrote up some information on Gedling House, and you will find info from that book endlessly quoted elsewhere on the ’net. Most of the local lands (“Thorneywood Chase”) were in the possession of the Earls of Chesterfield and thus inherited by the Earls of Carnarvon. Following cunning machinations by the Liberals near the end of the 19th Century & a battle royale between the Lords & Commons, the Landed Gentry were forced through onerous taxation to sell vast tracts of the lands that they had formerly obtained through Enclosure. This is part of the fundamental genetic of the UK that, in spite of a Grammar School education, I was never told about at school.

It seems that the house was likely to have been built about 1781. After passing through the hands of a great many grandees it has ended up being owned by Gedling Council & is currently occupied by Gedling Homes, with Daisies Day Nursery in the East Wing and CNR Engineering Services in the The Workshop (the latter also run a Helicopter business but not onsite at Gedling House (I was disappointed!)). OS-derived addresses indicated that the 3 houses on the other side of the service-road (Badgers Barn, The Old Stables & Old Coach House) also had Gedling House within their address.

Every local that I talked to impressed on me that the service road that supplies Gedling House is called “Military Road” (it has no official name). It was the kind of insistence that comes from being ignored, and I was happy to fill the void.

As a grand house it had a grand Walled Garden (a popular feature at the time). Today, sadly, that has been cleared & appears as a Car Park and grassed area:–

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grassed area:–

The strongest hint to it’s original function actually comes from an entrance currently hidden away in the woods (I wish that it was still a walled garden!):–

Update 3 July 2022

Mapillary has changed it’s download URLs & therefore all links within my diaries that use photos stored in Mapillary are broken. I’m slowly going through to update them. The new URLs are terrifyingly long, but show OK on my screen (and I hope also on yours).